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When I started, I wanted the addresses to look as innocuous as possible in order to avoid unnecessary explanations. Filling out paperwork that people hand inspe
by xelxebar 2y ago
When I started, I wanted the addresses to look as innocuous as possible in order to avoid unnecessary explanations. Filling out paperwork that people hand inspect is one case where that can cause issues. I have also heard of people getting filtered as potential spam accounts when the email address matches the service name or whatnot.
Anyway, I just use pwgen to generate plausible-looking addresses: pwgen -A0 10 1. They often look like realistic abbreviations of names.
- nobody9999 2y agoThanks! It makes sense, but I'm too lazy to bother. I haven't seen my email get filtered, even after more than a decade, but I suppose it could happen. If I do run into something like that, I can always fall back on pwgen. Thanks again!
- rsync 2y ago"I have also heard of people getting filtered as potential spam accounts when the email address matches the service name or whatnot." I have heard of that as well but many years in I have not experienced it. I do the same thing the person you are responding to does: nameofservice@domain.com ... and they all just go to my inbox with a descriptive tag in the subject that I insert with procmail.